Koplin Del Rio

AWARDS:
Einar & Jamex de la Torre:
2007 The Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Award
2006 Joan Mitchell Foundation Award
1984 Scholarship, Pilchuck School of Glass
Jamex de la Torre: 1977 Scholarship, California State University, Long Beach, CA

SOLO EXHIBITIONS:
2010 Solo Show, Craft and Folk Art Museum, Los Angeles, CA
2010 Solo Show, Koplin Del Rio Gallery, Culver City , CA
2008 Solo Show, National Hispanic Cultural Center, Albuquerque, NM
New Colonies in the New World, Koplin Del Rio Gallery, Culver City CA
New Work, William Traver Gallery, Tacoma, WA
2007 Solo show, Lisa Sette Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ
2005 “Folkloric Acid: Blown Glass and Mixed Media Sculpture”, Koplin Del Rio Gallery,
West Hollywood, CA
“Desperados”, Price-Dewey Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
“End of Empire”, California State University, Fullerton, CA
“Intersecting Time and Space”, Museum of Glass, International Center for Contemporary Art, Tacoma, WA
“Intersecting Time and Space”, Daniel Saxon Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2004 “New Sculptures”, American Museum of Glass, Millville, NJ
“Super Grotesque Beauty”, Daniel Saxon Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2003 “Eurovirus”, Daniel Saxon Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2002 “Neorelics, The Spanglish Period”, The Salina Art Center, Salina, KS
“Neorelics, The Spanglish Period”, Museum of Contemporary Art of Fort Collins, CO
“Neoreliquias” Museo de las Artes, University of Guadalajara, Guadalajara, Mexico
“Angry Gods”, Daniel Saxon Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2001 “Neorelics”, Porter Troupe Gallery, San Diego, CA
“Neorelics”, Snyderman Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
“Anacronistas”, Grand Arts, Kansas City, MO
“Anacronistas”, Mexic-Arte Museum, Austin, TX
2000 “The Mexican Problem”, Intersection for the Arts, San Francisco, CA
“¡cido FolclÛrico, en Retrosperspectiva”, Centro Cultural Tijuana, Tijuana, Mexico
1999 “Nouveau Riche”, Lisa Sette Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ
“La Conquista”, Daniel Saxon Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
“Mesomodern”, William Traver Gallery, Seattle, WA
“Oxymodern”, Porter Troupe Gallery, San Diego, CA
“El NiÒo’s Wake”, San Jose Center for Latino Arts, San Jose, CA
“Arte Frontera”, Snyderman Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
1998 “Exhibition for the Intersections Program of the University of Hawaii, Hopper Gallery, Honolulu, HI
“11:58 (PMAD)”, Robert Lehman Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
“Ojito Tapatio”, Mexican Fine Arts Museum, Chicago, IL
1997 “The Marlboro Man & The Virgin”, Daniel Saxon Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
“God’s Country”, William Traver Gallery, Settle, WA
“El NiÒo”, El Centro Cultural de Tijuana, Tijuana, Mexico
“Borderline Glass”, Arizona State University Museum, Tempe, AZ
“The Glass Frontera”, Joanne Rapp Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ
1996 “Folkloric Acid: The Resurrection”, MACLA, San Jose, CA
“Folkloric Acid: The Resurrection”, Daniel Saxon Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
“El Chamuco”, SOFA Miami, Snyderman Gallery, Miami, FL
“El Chamuco”, Snyderman Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
“Folkloric Acid”, San JosÈ Center for Latino Art, MACLA, San Jose, CA
1994 “Sacrilege in Vitro”, Julie Rico Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
“Figuras y Alegoria”, Galleria de la Raza, San Francisco, CA

GROUP EXHIBITIONS:
2008 “Hot Color Cool Glass” Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, AR
2007-09 “Craft in America” Traveling Exhibition, Venues:
Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, AR
Museum of Contemporary Craft, Portland, OR,
Mingei International Museum, San Diego, CA,
Houston Center for Contemporary Craft, Houston, Texas,
Cranbrook Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, MI,
National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum, Oklahoma City, OK,
Palm Springs Art Museum, Palm Springs, CA
Fuller Craft Museum, Brockton, MA
2007 Group Show, Adair Margo Gallery, El Paso TX
“No Distance is More Awesome”, Galeria/Studio 24, San Francisco CA
“AgS2”, Koplin Del Rio 25th Anniversary Group Show, Culver City, CA
“Sister Cities: Testing Boundaries: Art and Artisans along the U.S. Mexico Border Crossroads”, El Paso Museum of Art, TX
“Nuevo Arte:Coleccion Tequila Don Julio”, Traveling Exhibition, New York, NY, Houston, TX, Chicago, IL, Los Angeles CA
“Transactions: Contemporary Latin American and Latino Art”, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, San Diego, CA
“Strange New World”, Cultural Institute of Mexico, Washington, D.C.
2006 “Strange New World”, Cultural Institute of Mexico, Washington, D.C.
“Strange New World”, MCASD, San Diego & La Jolla, CA
“Strange New World”, Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica, CA
“Glass: Material Matters”, LACMA, Los Angeles, CA
“Holy Land: Diaspora and the Desert”, Heard Museum, Phoenix, AZ
“The S-Word: The State of ‘Spirituality’ in Contemporary Art”, The Judson Gallery of Contemporary Art & Traditional Art, Los Angeles, CA
“Politick”, Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
“Holy Land: Dispora and the Desert”, Heard Museum, Phoenix, AZ
2005 5th Biennale do Mercosul, Porto Alegre, Brazil
“Insatiable Desires”, Fisher Gallery Museum, USC, Los Angeles, CA
“Espejos: Artistas Contemporaneos de Mexico en los Estados Unidos”
traveling exhibition, Instituto Cultural de Mexico, Washington D.C.;
San Antonio, TX; Austin, TX; San Francisco, CA; and Universidad Autonoma
de Mexico, DF, Mexico
2004 “Curious”, Deschler Gallery, Berlin, Germany
“Group exhibition”, Keller Estate Winery, Petaluma, CA
“Group exhibition”, District Arts Gallery, Birmingham, MI
“Going Global”, Carnegie Museum, Oxnard, CA
“Group exhibition” District Arts Gallery, Birmingham, MI
“Home/Land”, Pittsburg Society for Contemporary Craft, Pittsburg, PA
“Narcochic Narcochoc” , MusÈe International des Arts Modestes, SÈte, France
“Art from the Americas”, Santa Barbara Art Museum, Santa Barbara, CA “LARVA”, Centro Cultural Tijuana, Tijuana, Mexico
2003 “Home/Land”, Houston Center for Contemporary Craft, Houston, TX
“Mexico Illuminated”, Albright College, Reding Museum, Reding, PA
“Ultra baroque- Aspects of Post Latin American Art”, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
“Ultra baroque- Aspects of Post Latin American Art”, The Miami Art Museum, Miami, FL
2003 “Ultra baroque- Aspects of Post Latin American Art”, Walker Art Center,
Minneapolis, MN
2002 “Assemblage” William Traver Gallery, Seattle, WA
“DiagnÛsticos Urbanos”, Centro Cultural Tijuana, Tijuana, Mexico
“III Salon del Vidrio”, Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Caracas, Caracas, Venezuela
“Ultra baroque- Aspects of Post Latin American Art”, Museo de Arte de la Ciudad de QuerÈtaro, QerÈtaro, MÈxico
2001 “2001: a Glass Odyssey- Art on the Cutting Edge”, A.N. Bush Gallery, The Salem Art Association, Salem, OR
“VII SalÛn de Arte BBVA Bancomer”, Museo de Arte Moderno, MÈxico City, Mexico
“Ultra baroque- Aspects of Post Latin American Art”, Museum of Fort Worth,
Fort Worth, TX
2000 “Made in California- Art Image and Identity, 190-2000”, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
“Reflections of Time and Place: Latin American Still Life in the 20th Century”,Museo del Barrio, New York, NY
“Off Broadway”, Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, CA
“7th International Shoebox Sculpture Exhibition”, University of Hawaii Art Gallery, Honolulu, HI
“ES 2000”, Centro Cultural Tijuana, Tijuana, Mexico
“Millennium Glass-an international survey of studio glass”, Kentucky Art & Craft Gallery, Louisville, KY
“Fast, Five Years At Grand Arts”, Grand Arts, Kansas City, MO
“Can’t Match Your Swatch”, Lisa Sette Gallery Scottsdale, AZ
“Spring 2000 Group Exhibition”, Porter Troupe Gallery, San Diego, CA
“Ultra baroque- Aspects of Post Latin American Art”
traveling exhibition, Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, CA;
Museum of Fort Worth, Fort Worth, TX;
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA;
Miami Art Museum, Miami, FL; The Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
“Fr·gil: Arte en Vidrio”, Monterrey Glass Museum, Monterrey, MÈxico
1999 “Cuarta Bienal Monterrey”, Museo de Monterrey, Monterrey, MÈxico
“The Labyrinth of Multitude”, Luckman Fine Arts Center Gallery, California State University, Los Angeles, CA
“Glass Art Document”, Ezra Glass Studio, Japan
“Glass Art Document”, Kanazu Forest of Creation Museum, Japan
“Reflections of Time and Place: Latin American Still Life in the 20th Century”, Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, NY
“California Blend: Tradition and Change”, Millard Sheets Gallery, Los Angeles
County Fair, Los Angeles, CA
“Crossing Boundaries”, Fisher Gallery, University of Southern California,
Los Angeles, CA
“Reflejo: El Cuerpo ErÛico y MÌstico”, La Casa de la Cultura, Tijuana, Mexico
“Formerly Known as Something Else”, Lisa Sette Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ
“Cultural Influences In Craft”, Penland Gallery, Penland, NC
“La Guadalajara”, Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, WA
1998 “Intersections Program”, University of Hawaii, Pegge Hopper Gallery, Honolulu, HI
“Fragil: Arte en Vidrio”, Monterrey Glass Museum, Monterrey, Mexico
1997 “Reconstructing Ritual”, San Diego State University Art Gallery, San Diego, CA
“Monique Knowlton Returns”, Monique Knowlton Gallery, New York, NY
1996 “Group Exhibition”, GalerÌa la Esquina, Ensenada, Mexico
“Group Exhibition”, Lollapalooza Music Festival, US tour
“Dia de los Muertos”, Centro Cultural de la Raza, San Diego, CA
“DÌa de los Muertos”, Mexican Fine Arts Center, Chicago, IL
1995 “All Americans”, Porter Troupe Gallery, San Diego, CA
1995 “La Curva”, City Gallery, Ensenada, Mexico
1994 “Return of the Dead”, South Bay Museum, Long Beach, CA
“Glass of the Pacific Rim”, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA
1991 Contemporary Visions of the Virgin of Guadalupe”, Downey Museum of Art, Downey, CA
1990 “Made in California- Art Image and Identity”, 1990-2000, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
“Latino Art Exhibit 1990”, Orange County Center for Contemporary Art, Santa Ana, CA
1988 “Escape from Tradition”, Alonso-Sullivan Gallery, Seattle, WA
1987 “Masks”, Oregon School of Arts and Crafts, Portland, OR
“The Human Form” , Galleria Mesa, Phoenix, AZ
“Eroticism”, Alonso-Sullivan Gallery, Seattle, WA
“The Nude National”, Wedge Gallery, Rochester, NY
“Arriba Artistas”, Fort Worth Gallery, Fort Worth, TX
“Arriba Artistas”, Exconvento del Carmen, Guadalajara, Mexico
“Dimensional Design”, Designs Recycled Gallery, Fullerton, CA
1985 “Open Juried Exhibition”, Long Beach Art Assoc., Long Beach, CA “Shrines and Altars”, John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI
“Glass Artist”, Redding Museum of Art, Redding, CA
1984 “Juried Sculpture Exhibition”, Long Beach Art Assoc., Long Beach, CA

PUBLIC COLLECTIONS:
Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, AR
Museum of Contemporary Craft, Portland, OR
Caltrans District 11, New Campus Facility, San Diego, CA
City of Phoenix Metro Valley Rail, Encanto-Central Station, Phoenix, AZ
Plaza San Jose, San Jose, CA
San Diego New Main Public Library, San Diego, CA
San Diego Harbor, San Diego, CA
Arizona State University Museum, AZ
San Diego Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, CA
The Kanazu Museum, Kanazu, Japan
The Fisher Gallery Museum at USC, Los Angeles, CA
Tucson Museum of Art, Tucson, CA
The Mexican Fine Art Center Museum, Chicago, IL
The Ernsting Stiftung Alter Hof Herding Museum, Coesfeld, Germany
Museum of Glass: International Center for Contemporary Art, Tacoma, WA
The Henry Art Gallery Museum of Washington University, Seattle, WA
The American Glass Museum, Millville, NJ
The Frauenau Museum of Glass, Frauenau, Germany

SELECTED PRIVATE COLLECTIONS:
Cheech Marin, Elton John, Terry McMillan, Sandra Cisneros and Quincy Troupe

GUEST TEACHING/ EDUCATIONAL WORKSHOP:
2007 Glass Workshop at Forest of Creation Workshop, Kanaz, Fukui Prefecture, Japan
2006 “The Dirty South: An Approach to the Hotshop”, Canadian Glass Conference, Canada
2005 “Bildwerk Worky-Work”, Bild-Werk School, Fraeunau, Germany
“The Dirty South Glass Sculpting Approach”, The Pittsburg Glass Center, Pittsburg, PA
2004 Instructors at Pilchuck Glass School, Seattle, WA
2003 Instructors at The Glass Furnace, Istanbul, Turkey
2002 ”The New World Antipurist”, Bild-Werk School, Frauenau, Germany
Instructors at the Harbourfront Centre, Toronto, Canada
”Son of the Antipurist Glassblower”, Penland School of Crafts, Mitchel County, NC
”The Anti-Purist Approach”, More Fire Studios, Rochester, NY
2001 Instructor at Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, Dear Isle, ME
2001 ”The Juliani Effect”, Urbanglass, Brooklyn, NY
2000 ”Return of the Antipurist Glassblower”, Pilchuck Glass School, Seattle, WA
1999 Instructors at Pratt Fine Arts Center, Seattle, WA
”Return of the Antipurist Glassblower”, Pilchuck Glass School, Seattle, WA
”The Antipurist Glassblower”, Pilchuck Glass School, WA
Instructors at Public Glass, San Francisco, CA
Instructors at Urbanglass, Brooklyn, NY
1988 ”The Juliani Effect”, Urbanglass, Brooklyn, NY
1988 Instructors at Penland School of Crafts, Penland, NC
1995 Instructors at Penland School of Crafts, Penland, NC
GUEST ARTISTS AND RESIDENCIES:
2006 Guest artists at the Canadian Glass Art Conference, Red Deer, Canada
Guest artists at the Jam Factory, Adelaide Australia February 2006
Guest artists at Australian National University, Camberra, Australia
2005 Residency at The Glass Museum, Tacoma, WA
2004 Fellowship at Creative Glass Center of America at Wheaton Village, Millville, NJ
Demonstration at Glass Art Society Conference, New Orleans, LA
California State University Fullerton, CA
2003 Ohio State University, Columbus, OH
Appalachian Center for Arts and Crafts, Smithville, TN
2002 The Glass Furnace, Istanbul, Turkey
Alfred University, Alfred, NY
Tyler School of Art, Philadelphia, PA
University of Miami, FL
2001 Emporia State University, Emporia, KS
California State University, San Francisco, CA
2000 Residency at Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI
Demonstration at Glass Art Society Conference, Brooklyn, NY
1999 California Center for Arts and Crafts, Oakland, CA
1998 Penland School of Crafts, Penland, NC
Ezra Glass Studios, Kanazu, Japan
The Intersections Program, University of Hawaii at Manau, Honolulu, HI
California State University San Jose, CA
1997 Lecture and Demonstration, Glass Art Society Conference, Tucson, AZ
Pilchuck School of Glass, Pilchuck, WA
California State University, Fullerton, CA
California State University, San Francisco, CA
1996 California Center for Arts and Crafts, Oakland, CA
Artists in residency at the Hilltop AIR program, Tacoma, WA
California State University, San Jose, CA
California State University, San Francisco, CA
1995 University of Illinois at Champaign, IL
California State University San Jose, CA
California State University, San Francisco, CA
1994 California Center for Arts and Crafts, Oakland, CA
California State University San Jose, CA
California State University San Francisco, CA
1985 University of California Los Angeles, CA
1984 University of California Los Angeles, CA
California State University Long Beach, CA
1983 California State University Long Beach, CA

CATALOG PUBLICATIONS
2007 Einar-Jamex de la Torre, Proceso, book set, California State University Fullerton Main Art Gallery, Fullerton, CA
2006 Glass: Material Matters, Los Angeles County Museum of Art
2005 Einar-Jamex de la Torre, La Obra, book set, California State University Fullerton Main Art Gallery, Fullerton, CA
Intersecting Time and Place Einar y Jamex de la Torre, catalog, Museum of Glass, International Center for Contemporary Art, Tacoma, WA
2002 Neoreliquias- Einar y Jamex de la Torre, catalog, Museo de las Artes de la Universidad de Guadalajara, Guadalajara, Mexico

BOOK PUBLICATIONS
2004 Triumph of Our Communities, published by the Bilingual Press Hispanic Research Center of Arizona State University
Chicano Art for Our Millennium, published by the Bilingual Press Hispanic Research Center of Arizona State University, pgs. 149 & 154
2002 Contemporary Chicana and Chicano Art, published by the Bilingual Press Hispanic Research Center of Arizona State University, volume 1, pgs. 156-159
2001 Contemporary Glass: Color, Light and Form, published by Sinner’s Lounge, pg. 107
2000 Contemporary Art from Urbanglass, published, “El Cien”, Brooklyn, NY
The Nature of Craft and the Penland Experience, published to celebrate
Penland Schools’s 75th anniversary, pg. 147

BIBLIOGRAPHY
2007 “Tijuana’s scrappy, do-it-yourself spirit”, Art Review, LA Times, Calendar, by David Pagel
2006 Art Review, New York Times, December 22, by Holland Cotter
2005 “Einar and Jamex de la Torre”, ArtScene review, by John Obrien, pgs. 22-23
“Report From Monterrey”, exhibition review in Art in America, by David Ebony,
pgs. 75-76, Museum of Mexican History, Monterrey, Mexico
“A Sacrifice to Art Gods”, review in The New times Tribune, by Jen Graves, sound life section, Tacoma, WA
“Qualified Irreverence: Einar and Jamex de la Torre”, front-cover, article and review, Glass Art Magazine, by Shawn Waggoner, pgs. 6-12, McLean, VA
2004 “Fermez la Bush”, published article in The Glass Art Society 2004 Journal, pg. 91
New Orleans, LA
“Jamex and Einar de la Torre”, article in Origina magazine, by Leah Ollman, pgs. 16-21, 71 and 74, Mexico City, Mexico
2002 “Import/Export the Borderless Baroque”, review in Art in America, by Edward J. Sullivan, pgs. 30, 39
“Neoreliquias”, review in El Occidente, section Cultura en Occidente, by Armando Ramirez
“Disolucion Estetica?”, essay on front page, El Occidente, by Felipe Ethrenberg, Guadalajara, Mexico
“Los Frutos del Artificio” review in Ocho Columnas,, Los Artistas section, by Victor Pazarin, Guadalajara, Mexico
“El Lado Opuesto al Minimalismo”, review in Publico by Victor Ortiz Partida, pg. 2, Guadalajara, Mexico
“Rompen las Reliquias con Vidrio”, review in Mural newspaper, pg. 7D, by Jorge Zul de la Curva, Guadalajara, Mexico
“Neoreliquias el Barraco Chicano en Vidrio Soplado” review in El Informador, section D, Guadalajara, Mexico
2001 “Agitation in Glass and Acrylic”, review in the San Diago Union tribune, Night and Day Section, by Robert L. Pincus, San Diego, CA
“Apollo 13 Pop Art”, work review and interview, www.apollo13art.com, by Miki Garcia and Perry Vasquez
“First Friday Focus”, review in Philadelphia Enquirer by Lori Hill, Snyderman Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
”Cultural Chaos Erupts in Brothers’ Art” review on front page of Arts section, The Kansas City Star by Alison Thorson, Kansas City, MO
“Telling Stories on Both Sides of the Border”, Review monthly, pgs. 38 & 39, by Rebekah Merrill, Kansas City, MO
“The Mexican Problem”, review in Art Nexxus, by Berin Golonu
“Kitsch Crosses Cultural Borders”, review in Austin America- Statesman, Life & Arts section, by Jeanne Claire van Ryzin, Austin, TX
“Exhibitionism”, review in The Austin Chronicle, page 42, by Rob Curran, Austin, TX
2000 “The Mexican Problem”, review in Zero Magazine, by Anjee Helstrup
“The Mexican Problem”, review in East Bay Weekly, by Lindsey Westbrook
“Attitude Adjustment”, review in San Diego Union Tribune, weekly guide pgs., 4 & 5, by Robert I. Pincus, San Diego, CA
“Critics Choice: Art, The Mexican Problem”, review The San Francisco Guardian, by Megan Wilson, San Francisco, CA
“The Mexican Problem, An Installation by Jamex and Einar de la Torre”, review at www.sfstation.com, by Rodrigo Diaz, San Francisco, CA
“Minarete”, review in the newspaper La Frontera, cultural section, by Felipe Ehrenberg, Tijuana, Baja California, MÈxico
Review in Glass Magazine, by Joanne Sturr, curator of the Tucson Museum of Art, Tucson, AZ
“Exploring the Boundaries”, review in Los Angeles Times, calendar section, by
Lorenza MuÒos, Los Angeles, CA
1999 “Tijuana Brash” review in New Times, by Kathleen Vanesian, Phoenix, AZ.
“Glass Darkly” review in San Diego Union Tribune, by Robert L. Pincus, San Diego, CA
“When Worlds Collide: Christianity, Beer and Bad Weather”, review in San JosÈ Mercury News, by Jack Fisher, San Jose, CA
“El NiÒo Behind Glass” review in San JosÈ Metro newspaper, by Ann Eliott Sherman, San Jose, CA
1988 “Artists Explore Border”, interview in Sculpture Magazine, pgs. 36-37, Washington D.C.
1997 “On the Border”, review in Glass Magazine, front cover and pgs. 20-28, by John Perrault, interview by Maribel L. Alvarez, on pgs 12-13, McLean, VA
1995 “Mayhem at Macla”, review in San JosÈ Metro newspaper, by Ann Eliott Sherman,
San Jose, CA